FractalNow A fast, advanced, multi-platform fractal generator.
What is FractalNow?
FractalNow provides users with tools to generate pictures of various types of fractals quickly and easily.
It is made of both a command line tool, FractalNow, and a graphical tool, QFractalNow.
The graphical tool, based on Qt library, allows users to explore fractals intuitively and generate pictures.
Both tools are entirely multi-threaded and implement advanced algorithms and heuristics that make computation very fast compared to most existing free fractal generators.
Main features
Intuitive graphical user-interface (QFractalNow) to explore fractal space easily
A command-line tool (FractalNow) that can work on machines without a desktop, and could be used by scripts to produce animations
Several formulas available (Mandelbrot, Julia, Multibrot, Mandelbar, Burning ship, Rudy, and more...)
Various types of coloring available (Iteration counts, Average coloring methods)
Multiple anti-aliasing methods (Gaussian blur, Oversampling, Adaptive (intelligent)) to produce high quality images
Advanced algorithms and heuristics to speed up computation (Solid guessing, Adaptive anti-aliasing, Caching)
Entirely multi-threaded to work even faster on multi-core processors
Ability to save/load configuration and gradient files
Support of arbitrary precision floating point numbers